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Leicester makes history in testing times

Photo by Geoffrey HaywardLeicester made demographic history as the first city in England where the…

Sheila M. BirdJuly 23, 2020

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Visualizing the Covid-19 pandemic with doubling rates

Artwork by Bosny (bosnyart.com)As the popularity of coronavirus data visualizations increases, so does the risk…

Luke Anderson-Trocmé and Sahir BhatnagarJuly 10, 2020

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Pandemic influenza and Covid–19: Geographical velocity and control

Photo by Juan Cruz Mountford on UnsplashOn 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO)…

Matthew Smallman-Raynor and Andrew CliffApril 22, 2020

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A statistician’s guide to coronavirus numbers

Photo by Isaac Quesada on UnsplashThe Royal Statistical Society’s Statistical Ambassadors have collated an essential…

RSS Statistical AmbassadorsApril 9, 2020

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Statistics in court: Incorrect probabilities

Although both the law and statistical theory have foundations that rest on formal rules and…

Jim Norton and George DivineApril 9, 2019

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Why my father had to defend decades’ worth of data in court

Back in the 1990s, British miners were fighting for compensation for diseases linked to coal…

Jonny JacobsenOctober 8, 2018

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The curious case of Mats Järlström

Mats Järlström is an engineer. He repaired aircraft for the Swedish Air Force and designed…

Nick ThiemeSeptember 17, 2018

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Greece’s former national statistician is heading back to court

Andreas Georgiou, Greece’s former national statistician, once again faces trial on charges of inflating the…

Brian TarranMay 16, 2018

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Words in pictures: exploring repetition in song lyrics

It may not be immediately obvious, but the image to the left represents part of the…

Brian TarranNovember 6, 2017

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Voting matters – August 2016 issue preview

Some readers may find it ironic that, less than two months after the UK voted…

Brian TarranAugust 9, 2016

Bacon, cancer, and the vital importance of statistical reasoning

In September 2015, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) International Agency for Research in Cancer (IARC)…

David SpiegelhalterJanuary 29, 2016

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How has the sharing economy changed job security?

There has been a great deal of attention given to the development of the 'sharing…

Ian BrinkleySeptember 3, 2015

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How has the sharing economy changed job security?

There has been a great deal of attention given to the development of the 'sharing…

Ian BrinkleySeptember 1, 2015

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Does Christmas really come earlier every year?

It has become something of a cliché to remark upon the ever earlier arrival of…

Nathan CunninghamNovember 11, 2014

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Fireballs falling to Earth: Part 3

The subject of today's article is impact risk and concludes the three-part series looking at…

Jordi PratsMarch 28, 2013